Mars could very well be a staging location for the resources of the asteroid belt. We have to learn how to get… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
The basic method to find asteroids hasn't changed much in hundreds of years. So asteroids in a telescope look just like stars… — Carrie Nugent Copy Share Image
The nice thing about asteroids is that once you've found them, and once you have a good solid orbit on them, you… — Rusty Schweickart Copy Share Image
Amorphous forms [of ice], for example, are found naturally on comets, on asteroids, and the crystalline forms are found on Earth or… — Ira Flatow Copy Share Image
todays the first anniversary of the asteroid hitting the moon. A year ago i was sixteen years old, a sophomore in high… — Susan Beth Pfeffer Copy Share Image
In 1908, there was a persuasive demonstration of the power of high-speed, low-mass asteroids in rural Siberia. The Tunguska impactor iced millions… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
Why can't we summon the ingenuity and courage of the generations that came before us? The dinosaurs never saw that asteroid coming.… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
There is enough material in the Kuiper Belt to build anything out there. We could gobble up all the little asteroids, filtering… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
The shuttle tomorrow is truly like laying the last spike on the transcontinental railroad, only much more so. And whether or not… — Jerry Brown Copy Share Image
Our biggest threat is not an asteroid about to crash into us, something we can do nothing about. Instead, all the major… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
I'm extraordinarily passionate about the idea of asteroid mining in the future. Asteroids out there, we know them from those that have… — Peter Diamandis Copy Share Image
There is a one-in-300 chance that Earth will be struck on March 16, 2880, by an asteroid large enough to destroy civilization… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
Asteroids have hit the Earth millions of times. We can see them as shooting stars every night. When they get bigger, things… — Rusty Schweickart Copy Share Image
We can't say that when x happens we get a mass extinction. To the extent we understand mass extinction, one has been… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
On the whole, asteroids tend to leave Earth alone. And day to day, there really isn't cause for most people to give… — Carrie Nugent Copy Share Image
Consider that the overwhelming majority of those 40,000 near-Earth asteroids are small enough to fit on the parking lot at the mall.… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
Caltech honored me -- they named an asteroid after me. There's only two of them up there with names. One of them… — Tommy Lasorda Copy Share Image
I played mostly games like Asteroids and Pac-Man. Today, when I go into an arcade, the games are much more difficult and… — Brandi Chastain Copy Share Image
...they discovered only a small asteroid inhabited by a solitary old man who claimed repeatedly that nothing was true, though he was… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
An asteroid can literally destroy 80 or 90 percent of the species that are alive on Earth. These are big events. I… — Rusty Schweickart Copy Share Image
What happens if a big asteroid hits Earth ? Judging from realistic simulations involving a sledge hammer and a common laboratory frog,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Back in the day, I've heard, particularly with the near-Earth asteroids, there were some asteroid hunters that knew the names of every… — Carrie Nugent Copy Share Image
I agree that we should go back to the moon and on to Mars. We should treat all objects in the solar… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Asteroids are often seen as a threat, but they are also an opportunity. The use of space resources holds a large potential… — Etienne Schneider Copy Share Image
I only hope that we shall not wait to adopt the program until after our astronomers have reported a new and unsuspected… — Wernher von Braun Copy Share Image
As a scientist, I want to go to Mars and back to asteroids and the Moon because I'm a scientist. But I… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
When you look at Earth from that one picture, the one from space, it's really a rather attractive thing. I have nothing… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
This is the sort of book that justifies fatwahs. If WWIII occurred right now, we could die happy knowing Baxter would never… — James Nicoll Copy Share Image
“In the past, men had projected their feminine qualities of emotions, nurturance, and sensitivity onto women. With the recent activation of the… — Demetra George Copy Share Image
Because our lungs regularly deal with carbon dioxide, they see nothing wrong with absorbing its cousin, SiO2, which can be fatal. Many… — Sam Kean Copy Share Image
Asteroids are deep-space bodies orbiting the Sun, not the Earth, and traveling to one would mean sending humans into solar orbit for… — Rusty Schweickart Copy Share Image
To set foot on the soil of the asteroids, to lift by hand a rock from the Moon, to observe Mars from… — Konstantin Tsiolkovsky Copy Share Image
It occurred to Susan that men were always waiting for something cataclysmic-love or war or a giant asteroid. Every man wanted to… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share Image
Mining asteroids is a well-oiled trope of science-fiction. But someday, actually doing it will make economic sense. Many of the essential metals… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
There is good reason to believe that we have already entered the Sixth Extinction, a period of destruction of species on a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
They say asteroids hit the moon pretty often, which is how the moon gets its crater, but this one is going to… — Susan Beth Pfeffer Copy Share Image
I think the public perception about asteroids is that they're kind of metaphors for acts of God, the fact that we have… — Carrie Nugent Copy Share Image
“The most important thing is not to work on things that other people are working on because otherwise all you'll do is… — David Jewitt Copy Share Image
On Friday the 13th, April 2029, an asteroid large enough to fill the Rose Bowl as though it were an egg cup… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Most estimates of the mortality risk posed by asteroid impacts put it at about the same risk as flying in a commercial… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
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